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==U.S.==
==U.S.==
===Politics===
In American politics, "abolition" was only a small part of the much larger '''Anti-Slavery''' movement. The latter included the [[Free Soil Party]] of 1848 and, especially, the [[Reopublican Party]], founded in 1854. Abolitionists demanded the ''immediate'' abolition of slavery regardless of consequences. Republicans rejected that idea until 1862; their goal was to kill slavery eventually by preventing it from expanding. That is, the Republicans had a "containment" policy (much like the one in the [[Cold War]] against the Soviet Union). The idea was that slavery had to expand to survive. There was bad blood between abolitionists (who denounced the Republicans as soft on slavery), and the republicans (who denounced the abolitionists as dangerous radicals. Democrats north and south repeatedly denounced the Republican Party, falsely, as the party of abolition.
===Abolitionists===
The first abolition organization formed in the [[United States]] was the [[Pennsylvania Abolition Society]], originally known as the Society for the "Relief for Free Negroes unlawfully held in Bondage", in 1775.<ref>http://www.hsp.org/default.aspx?id=634</ref> Organizations such as these made use of the [[Underground Railroad]], a loosely organized system for secretly transporting a few hundred slaves into Canada.
The first abolition organization formed in the [[United States]] was the [[Pennsylvania Abolition Society]], originally known as the Society for the "Relief for Free Negroes unlawfully held in Bondage", in 1775.<ref>http://www.hsp.org/default.aspx?id=634</ref> Organizations such as these made use of the [[Underground Railroad]], a loosely organized system for secretly transporting a few hundred slaves into Canada.